Gas cooker installation

[Alextom]

I've just had gas supplied to my kitchen so I could install a fairly new cooker, moved from my old house.
The fitter told me that he checked all his pipe work and hose and could find no leak but when attaching the cooker a small one registered on his Gauge. Is it possible that the Gauge would register something when the supply is attached to it or do I now have to get a new cooker?
Can anyone help?

 

[kevplumb]

but when attaching the cooker a small one registered on his Gauge.

how small ???

could you smell gas ???

 

[Gasguru]

Maybe theres a leak on the hose connection - why didin't the fitter locate the leak - easy job.

It is permissable to have a drop of up to 4mbar through appliances (on a standard type meter) provided there is no smell of gas. This is to allow normal wear and tear of gas taps etc.

In practice most customers will smell a 0.5 mbar drop.

It would be unusual to have a gas leak on a cooker of this age unless it is a cheap and nasty version that requires a heatshield plate when grilling.

Users don't bother and the gas taps overheat and leak gas.

 

[Alextom]

8) Thank you for your very helpful replies.
I've now bought my own gas guage but yet to work out how to use it.

Without wanting to bore you here's a more detailed background.

When I said the cooker was fairly new, what I should have said was that it was a new Stoves bought 4 years ago but since moving (2 1/2 years ago) it had sat in the garage. I prepared the slot in the kitchen in advance of the fitter (a young, newly qualified Corgi) arriving, which meant removing the glass 'lid'.
The fitter thought that the way I removed this could have caused a problem because I didn't follow the manual. I looked at the manual later, and removed the side panels as it suggested, incase there was something I should have done, but didn't. The result was that it was another, more complicated way of doing what I did in the first place.

I have now bought a Monument U Gauge (257c) but I'm not sure how to use it. The fitter had told my wife I could call him and he would talk me through it. Are these things easy to use?

Alextom

 

[corgiman]

OMG

this has got to be a wind up

 

[kevplumb]

I have now bought a Monument U Gauge (257c) but I'm not sure how to use it.

take it back if you didn't get the instructions with it

failing that go to an approved ACS centre and for a small fee they will explain

 

[ChrisR]

I've bought a thing called a scalpel, and some forceps....
Nothing can go wrong can it?

 

[corgiman]

I've bought a thing called a scalpel, and some forceps....
Nothing can go wrong can it?

 

[corgiman]

I have now bought a Monument U Gauge (257c) but I'm not sure how to use it.

take it back if you didn't get the instructions with it

failing that go to an approved ACS centre and for a small fee they will explain

yes dad The U gauge costs about 3500 plus vat but you do get free corgi registration and ACS qualifications wif it

 

[Gasguru]

which meant removing the glass 'lid'

The fitter thought that the way I removed this could have caused a problem

It pointing towards a leak on the lid shutoff (unless it has switchback)

 

[Alextom]

Thank you Gasguru

The problem seems to have been solved. A leak may have occurred because of the way I removed the lid originally.
There has been no smell of gas; I have managed to use the U Gauge which doesn't indicate a leak.
I'm planning to do another check for leaks just to be sure.
Alextom

 

[kier]

alextom.which part of london you live in.just a general idea please.
just asking as my cat/dog and au pair does not like loud bangs,au pair only gets a bang once a week,no need to spoil her.

 

[Alextom]

yes dad The U gauge costs about 3500 plus vat but you do get

Corgiman, Kier either you're idiots or you are those people who like to treat others like idiots. The U gauge I bought cost £15 from the Plumbshop and I used it in exactly the same way as the Corgi engineer did (a friend of a friend who I wish I knew earlier), who came round two days later.

 

[Nige F]

They`d be the latter of the 2 options .....I`m one of the first

 

[corgiman]

yes dad The U gauge costs about 3500 plus vat but you do get

Corgiman, Kier either you're idiots or you are those people who like to treat others like idiots. The U gauge I bought cost £15 from the Plumbshop and I used it in exactly the same way as the Corgi engineer did (a friend of a friend who I wish I knew earlier), who came round two days later.

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mmm sorry you missed the joke tom

I was saying that a u guage is about 15

but the the course that you are required to undertake to use it legally are about 3500 plus vat

so I am not an idiot, and I wish you luck